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During a recent session of tidying my office and looking through old paperwork and files, I made the mistake of looking through some old diaries that Carol and I used to use before the days of iCal. Of course, this is a dangerous thing to do, because inevitably, we end up spending the time allocated to the tidying to reminiscing and going over historical documents! The diaries I found go back to 1993 and there are notes in them that show appointments we had with various saddle makers and influential people in the saddle...

Those of you who have been using our online shop to buy BALANCE products had to register to be able to use the shop and as the site got older this whole process became very irritating and long-winded. Sorry about that and thank you to those of you who battled through the procedure and managed to use the shop! The new shop does not require you to register and seems a lot easier to navigate and use. You will see that you still have the option to use a credit/debit card...

Forgotten wisdom from over 100 years ago, is a guide that the saddle industry needs to be using as a foundation for future training. After over 25 years of working to improve the way saddling is done, to protect ridden horses, we think that what we do is completely logical, simple, normal and we wonder….why doesn’t everyone do it this way!  Yet…. we are still considered by many in the horse industry to be radical, controversial and crazy.  These are just the polite descriptions………..there are many more!  As we move into a new decade...